Lie With Me
Autor Philippe Besson Traducere de Molly Ringwalden Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 sep 2019
Cât de mult din cine suntem astăzi este determinat de tăcerile și secretele adolescenței noastre? Considerăm că Lie With Me nu este doar o cronică a unei prime iubiri, ci o explorare viscerală a modului în care memoria fragmentează și conservă dorința. Totul pornește de la o privire fugară în fața unui hotel din Bordeaux, unde Philippe, acum un scriitor consacrat, recunoaște în trăsăturile unui străin chipul lui Thomas, băiatul care i-a marcat existența în iarna anului 1984. Recomandăm acest roman pentru onestitatea cu care descrie o legătură clandestină într-o comunitate mică, unde privirile celorlalți cântăresc mai mult decât adevărul propriu. Ritmul narativ amintește de intensitatea melancolică a lui Raymond Radiguet în The Devil in the Flesh, dar structura lui Besson este mult mai ancorată în regretul maturității și în ecourile timpului pierdut. Dacă în In the Absence of Men, autorul plasa vulnerabilitatea masculină în contextul marelui război, aici miza este una intimă, aproape claustrofobă, limitată la coridoarele liceului și la întâlniri programate cu precizie de ceasornic. Traducerea semnată de Molly Ringwald reușește să păstreze cadența limbii franceze, oferind textului o eleganță discretă care amplifică tragismul deznodământului. Este o lectură despre curajul de a iubi și despre prețul tăcerii, o meditație asupra modului în care prima pasiune devine busola după care ne ghidăm restul vieții.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0241987091
Pagini: 148
Dimensiuni: 128 x 195 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută o proză densă, emoționantă, despre identitate și primele experiențe care ne definesc. Este un roman esențial pentru cei care apreciază temele memoriei și ale iubirii interzise, oferind o perspectivă matură asupra modului în care trecutul refuză să rămână îngropat. Veți câștiga o experiență de lectură cathartică, marcată de o sensibilitate rară față de nuanțele regretului.
Despre autor
Născut în Charente, Philippe Besson este un nume central al literaturii franceze contemporane. Absolvent de drept și fost critic literar, Besson a debutat în 2001 cu „En l'absence des hommes”, lucrare distinsă cu premiul Emmanuel-Roblès. Opera sa, adesea premiată sau adaptată pentru marele ecran, se distinge prin analiza fină a psihologiei umane și a relațiilor marcate de contextul social. Stilul său este caracterizat de o precizie aproape chirurgicală a emoției, transformându-l într-un observator subtil al fragilității umane.
Notă biografică
Molly Ringwald's writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Vogue, and she is the author of the bestselling novel-in-stories When It Happens to You.
Recenzii
A stunning and heart-gripping tale
An intense, unforgettable novel, alive with the ache of longing and loss.
It has been years since anything moved me as much as Lie With Me. It will become a classic
A deeply moving depiction of first love, both tender and elegiac.
A timeless love story. Molly Ringwald's translation is as clear and beautiful as the story it depicts. You'll read it in a night, but its exquisite heartbreak will linger.
The uncanny thrill of Philippe Besson's Lie With Me rises up from Molly Ringwald's elegant translation with the intensity of meeting a stranger on a train who tells you a single unforgettable story and then leaves. And his voice haunts me still
An elegiac tale of first, hidden love between two teenage boys who have no chance of a shared future, "Lie with Me" sold more than a hundred thousand copies in France, where it won several prizes and is being made into a movie.
Lie With Me is an exquisite whisper that lingers long after you've finished reading it
Devastating and tender; this is the book I wish I'd read when I was 15, and a book I'm glad to have as a companion now
A lovely novel, a painful story of love and loss. . . Lie with Me succeeds as a novel because of Besson's graceful writing, beautifully translated by Ringwald. Besson is a gifted stylist, and he infuses Philippe's story with the right notes of sadness and longing.
This gorgeous, aching novel captures all of the fear and freedom of young desire. . . may well be the best gay love story in contemporary fiction. I dare you to read it without crying.
This is a gorgeous fever dream of a book. Ringwald's translation does elegant justice to Besson's balance of beauty and despair, and to his interrogations of memory and longing. Lie With Me positively glows in the dark.
A bittersweet love story, told from the perspective of a gay man remembering his first romantic affair as a teenager in a small town in the south of France in 1984.
At first erotic and joyous, ultimately elegiac and haunting, Lie With Me is a deceptively slender book as big as life itself
In spare yet evocative prose, elegantly translated by Molly Ringwald, Philippe Besson relates the erotic awakening of two adolescent boys in a small French town in the 1980s. Lie With Me captures their world with the grainy poignancy of an old high school yearbook, while movingly conveying the quintessential human dramas of longing, love, and letting go.
The French Brokeback Mountain
A man looks back at his first love, a forbidden homosexual affair during his last year of high school in a small French town in the 1980s. Though a screenwriter and playwright, Mr. Besson does not rely on direct dialogue but reconstructs conversations from a fog of memories in this coming-of-age story. A French best seller likened to "Call Me By Your Name" and "Brokeback Mountain," the novel marks the first English translation by the actress and writer Ms. Ringwald, a longtime Francophile.
Molly Ringwald translated this French Call Me By Your Name-esque novel about two teenagers in 1984 Bordeaux as they fall in love in the shadows, leaving one of them to reflect on the relationship many years later
There's much book-to-filmstar appeal in this moving, well-plotted tale: Elle dubbed it "the French Brokeback Mountain"; there's something of Call Me by Your Name's Elio in Philippe, who lives in the books he reads and writes; and actress and writer Ringwald ably translates.
Moving ... Besson's writing and Ringwald's smooth translation provide emotional impact.
Universally touching
Besson is a thoughtful writer who can strike home with vivid imagery. . . [and] deftly translated [by Ringwald].
This Year's Call Me by Your Name... While the starring peach of Call Me by Your Name was the perfect metanym for that lush and gauzy tale, Lie With Me unpeels like a springy orange. The boys' relationship is bare but segmented, each encounter entirely isolated from the others, with only a thin membrane to keep all that tart juice from bursting out. . . [A] moving and graceful novel
A story of queer adolescence in rural France in the 1980s, Besson's "Lie With Me" is a primer on the tenacity of desire... Molly Ringwald, by delightful coincidence an icon of '80s John Hughes films, provides a limpid translation that preserves all the earnest mystery of teenage sex... Besson keeps his study in intimacy fresh through nimble plot twists, in which the present disturbs a certain version of the past, creating repercussions for the future. Equal parts André Aciman and Marguerite Duras, "Lie With Me" poignantly reflects on why some memories fade and others do not.
A slender, sad, acute novel... absolutely excellent
Full of Proustian echoes, this story of gay adolescence deals with complex issues of class, shame and secrecy
A poignant tale that captures the intensity of first love with all its sadness, longing and regret
A clear-sighted and passionate coming-of-age narrative. Detailing in elegant and plain prose the anxious and intense first falling-in-love between two schoolboys, Lie With Me has a tenderness and insight that is reminiscent of the writings of Garth Greenwell. This novel can be read in a matter of hours, but its impact, like the love affair it details, will echo in the mind
Moving, intense, sad and sensuous
Descriere scurtă
'Stunning and heart-gripping' André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name
'A beautiful, shattering novel about desire and shame, about passionate youth and the regrets of age' Olivia Laing, bestselling author of Crudo
Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe, a famous writer, chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back to Philippe's teenage years, to a winter morning in 1984, a small French high school, and a carefully timed encounter between two seventeen-year-olds. It's the start of a secret, intensely passionate, world-altering love affair between Philippe and his classmate, Thomas.
Dazzlingly rendered by Molly Ringwald, the acclaimed actor and writer, in her first-ever translation, Besson's exquisitely moving coming-of-age story captures the tenderness of first love - and the heart-breaking passage of time.
'It has been years since anything moved me as much as Lie With Me. It will become a classic.' Jonathan Coe, bestselling author of Middle England
'An intense, unforgettable novel, alive with the ache of longing and loss.' Sarah Waters, bestselling, award-winning author of The Little Stranger and Fingersmith
'Devastating and tender; this is the book I wish I'd read when I was 15, and a book I'm glad to have as a companion now' Andrew McMillan, award-winning author of Physical
'A deeply moving depiction of first love, both tender and elegiac.' John Boyne, bestselling author of A Ladder to the Sky and The Heart's Invisible Furies
'A slender, sad, acute novel... absolutely excellent' Sarah Perry, bestselling author of The Essex Serpent and Melmoth
'A tender, sensuous novel' New York Times Book Review
'Full of Proustian echoes, this story of gay adolescence deals with complex issues of class, shame and secrecy' Guardian
'A poignant tale that captures the intensity of first love with all its sadness, longing and regret' Daily Mail
'This novel can be read in a matter of hours, but its impact, like the love affair it details, will echo in the mind' Irish Times